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"El Rancho Hotel, Gallup, New Mexico, is a historic hotel built by R.E. “Griff” Griffith,[2] the brother of film director D.W. Griffith. The pair encouraged early film production in the surrounding area.[2] It is located on old U.S. Route 66 and became the temporary home for many Hollywood movie stars.The rambling, three-story hotel building has a large portico with a central balcony reminiscent of the Southern Plantation style. The National Park Service describes it as having a “rusticated fantasy appearance.” Materials include brick, random ashlar stone, and roughewn wood with a wood shake roof and brick and stone chimneys. The lobby features a spectacular walk-in fireplace made of brick and random ashlar stone surrounded by twin stairways made of split logs that lead to the second floor guest rooms.[2] The slogan “Charm of Yesterday, Convenience of Tomorrow” is rendered in neon above the main entrance.[3]
It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.[4]
History
It opened in 1937 as a base for movie productions. Employees were trained by the Fred Harvey Company.[5]
With the opening of Interstate 40, the property fell into decline. Armand Ortega bought the hotel at a bankruptcy auction[6] and restored the property.
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El Rancho Restaurant and motel is Gallup's main touristic attraction. A lot of celebrities and western movie stars ate and slept there. We were supposed to eat there but the dining room was full and noisy. So we took the car and we ate in a Sonic's fast food: Coke, Burger and french fries !
Le El Rancho est le monument phare de Gallup. Un restaurant-hôtel célèbre de la route 66. Plusieurs stars des westerns y ont mangé. Nous, non. On est passé devant. En fait on a essayé d'y manger mais c'était plein. Qui aurait cru qu'un restaurant au milieu du désert du Nouveau-Mexique eut pu être plein ? On continue en ville mais on a repéré aucun restaurant, heureusement juste avant la sortie de Gallup on a bifurqué sur la U.S. 491.
Déjeuner dans un des 3561 fast-foods Sonic's aux USA. Une des innombrables chaînes de fast-food américaines servant toujours Coca, burger et frites..
Alan Wynn, pilot on this 'hop' in "Her Highness" hot air balloon . . . Harry and Zoe are passengers . . .
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#21 Kayla Godwin and #22 Anna Gallup
The D&E volleyball team takes on the University of Rio Grande during Homecoming Weekend.
Photo by Paul W. Hendrix. Copyright 2014 Davis & Elkins College.
The El Rancho is apparently the grande dame of that set of motels and motor courts developed along Route 66 after WW II.
Most of the towns along Route 66 seem to have well-developed downtowns for communities their size, perhaps due to the higher-than-average traffic even back then. Since I-40 was built along the same path as U.S. 66 in this part of the world, the downtown districts have usually survived in pretty good shape.